Word: sprints
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hump hreys showed a computer model of this alternate plate tectonics, which included, at one point, the continents moving apart from each other at a rate of two meters per second. He called this process "a continental sprint, not a continental drift...
...Accenting his statement with a click of the mouse, he continues, "If I don't see what I like right away, I move on. I'm not an endurance surfer; I'm a sprint surfer...
...Head of the Charles regatta is rooted in the desire to break up the monotony of fall training. The intercollegiate rowing season takes place primarily in the spring with 2000 meter sprint competitions. But rowing programs begin their training in the late summer, focusing on building an athletic base. Waiting for the spring, crews row on the water and indoors on ergometers; they run and weight train...
...phone gods would rather focus on things like last week's $115 billion merger of MCI WorldCom and Sprint. It's a record-size deal befitting record-size egos and has implications for Wall Street, where they're trying to identify tomorrow's survivors--and the targets those companies will swallow today. If you want to play, look for AT&T, MCI WorldCom, Bell Atlantic and SBC to survive; their targets include many small cable and wireless companies, along with such big outfits as Bell South, Global Crossing, Cincinnati Bell, Qwest and Nextel...
...Antitrust concerns have been raised because an important competitor is being removed. But with Internet and regional Bell companies creeping into the picture, long-distance rates--now about as low as they've ever been--are unlikely to spurt higher. In the long run, the MCI WorldCom-Sprint combination may push us a little faster to telecom nirvana: one-stop shopping for local, long distance and wireless service; Internet access; and cable TV. Imagine all those connections in one jack (plus wireless) and a single bill based on how much data flows through the electronic spigot. We're headed there...